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Cc: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: Thinkpad X61s cannot boot 9.1-BETA1
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on 12/09/2012 20:25 Lars Engels said the following:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 03:54:30PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> Could you try to play with different eventtimer settings (preferably in current) ?
>> You can use this thread / PR as a guide:
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.devel.amd64/14480/focus=14495
>>
>> The place where boot stop looks suspiciously close to the place where timer
>> interrupts should start driving the system.
> 
> Yes, that's it!
> Setting  kern.eventtimer.timer="i8254" let's the Thinkpad boot on
> CURRENT with the AC cable inserted.
> 

Please share your sysctl kern.eventtimer output with Alexander.
He will probably ask for some additional information :-)

Thanks for testing!

-- 
Andriy Gapon